Meet FivePlay Jazz Quintet

We’re a Bay Area-based band of long-time musical compatriots. We compose and perform original music that nourishes both mind and heart; melodic, creative modern jazz to be enjoyed by everyone, whether you’re an experienced jazz listener or you’re hearing jazz for the first time.

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FivePlay’s third release, “Five and More”, has been receiving extensive radio play both in the US and far-flung places all over the globe. Here’s what reviewers are saying:

“A gorgeous album with enormous heart and taste. Those arrangements are fabulous”- Marc Myers, JazzWax

“The music is memorably melodic”-Andrew Gilbert, SF Chronicle

“An exemplary effort shifting between the more straight ahead bebop and post modern…sounds that allow this formidable quintet to lay down their own artistic stamp on a truly original release.”- Brent Black, Bop-n-Jazz.com

“They are charting a fresh path in the land of jazz that will be sure to attract a following.”- O’s Place Jazz Magazine

“This is one of the best quintets I’ve listened to this year, and they get an unequivocal MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an “EQ” (energy quotient) rating of 4.97.” - Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation Nation